Pennsylvania Families

Elizabeth Wicks' research says that Sarah was born 13 Dec 1804 in York, Pennsylvania, but she doesn't identify her source for the information.

Sarah's daughter Celia (Kiel) Clossin's death record, Pittsburgh, Jan 6, 1929, says that Sarah was born in York, Pennsylvania.

Sarah (Kern) Kiel is on the 1850 Census in Greensburg with D. Morris and her four youngest daughters. (1850 Federal Census, Greenburg Boro., Westmoreland Co., PA Series M432, Roll 837, page 183. Census page 183, line 10.)

In 1850 "Sarah Kiehl" was exonerated from paying 2 cents in county taxes and 3 cents in state taxes, while living in Greensburg Borough, Westmoreland Co. ("Exonerations of County, State, and Militia Taxes, Westmoreland County, 1850" as found in Volume 8, Number 4 (Feb 1989) of The Old Westmoreland.)

Sometime between 1850 and 1858 Sarah moved to Wilmore, where she appears on the 1860 Census with Morris and the three youngest daughters. (1860 Federal Census, Wilmore Boro, Cambria County, Pennsylvania Series M653, Roll 1088, Page 588)

She may have moved by 1853, since a rootsweb source says that Sarah's daughter Mary Ann Snider was living in Greensburg in 1851 at the birth of her second child, and in Kernville, Cambria Co., in August 1853 at the birth of her third (Jespat.ged file from Jesse Davis' database at rootsweb.com). Or she may have moved by 1856, when her mother, Margaret Steinbaugh died in Johnstown at the home of Sarah's brother George W. Kern. (Photocopy of Margaret's death notice, The Cambria Tribune, Wednesday 23 Apr 1856)

The obituary of Sarah's daughter Emma (Kiel) Spielman says that Emma lived in Cambria County for 30 years. It was not quite this long, since Sarah and the daughters were in Greensburg in 1850, but it does indicate a move closer to 1850 than to 1860. Emma married in 1875 and moved to Pittsburgh in 1879.

Sarah died between 1864, when she was alive as a legatee of her father's estate, and 1867, when Jacob acted as her heir in a suit regarding the same estate. (Frank Kiel's Hendrik Gerrit Kiel, p. 43 and footnote 76.)She probably died in Cambria County. The date of death and her burial place are not known. However, Eleanor Wicks' notes say that she died at Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. If so, she was probably with her daughter Mary Ann (Kiel) Snyder.

 

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Transcription of the Family Record pages of the family Bible
of Henry G. and Sarah (Kern) Kiel.
The lines between entries were in the original.
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Family Record [page 1]

Births [First Column]
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Henry G Kiel was
married to Sarah Kern
on the 24th of June [1824 inserted] by
Mr Painter
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John Henry Kiel was
born on the 7 day of January
in the year of our Lord
eighteen hundred and thir
ty eight.
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Sarah Elean Kiel,
was born on the 22d February,
in the year of our Lord,
eighteen hundred and forty.
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Celia Anthus L Kiel
was born on the 26 April
ad 1843 Baptised by
W. [or M.] Long
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Elizabeth E. Kiel was
Born on the 2th day of March
ad 1845

Emma Henry Kiel was
Born on the 4th day of Augst
1848

 

Births [Second Column]
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Margret Elizabeth
Kiel was born on the
3th day of May in the year
of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and twenty
five
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Mari Een Kiel was
born on the 29[?] of July
1828
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Jacob Steinbaugh Kern
Kiel was born November
8th 1829
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Daniel Morris Kiel
was born on the 19th of
December in the year
of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and th[ page torn here]
-- one
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Joseph White Kiel, [page torn]
September 13, in th [page torn]
of our Lord, one [page torn]
eight hundred [page torn]
four

 

[page 2] Family Record

Deaths [First Column]
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Joseph White Kiel, [name underlined]
died on the 24th December,
in the of our Lord [sic], eighteen
hundred and thirty nine
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John Henry Kiel, [name underlined]
died on the 31st of December
in the year of our Lord, eighteen
hundred and thirty nine.
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[heavy straight line above and below
the following entry, which was in
the same column as the two deaths]

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Celea Anthus L. Kiel
was born 26 April A D 1843
Baptised by W. Long.
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Deaths [Second Column]
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Henry G. Kiel
Died on the 14th February
In the year of our Lord
Eighteen Hundred and forty eight
----- "------"------- [wavy lines with "]

 

 

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Married on the 30th October
By Henry R Kern
Mr. Thomas Young to Miss
Margaret E Kiel Daughter of
H G Kiel and S Kiel all
of The Borrow of Greensburgh